A woman fucks a fish and the world is okay with it, but touch a woman's boob and everyone goes mad.

Interestingly, that movie (Cold Skin) also features this. Though, it's human man-fish woman there, and it's hardly consensual, which obviously hurt it with some reviewers here. (Who said there's no feminism in Russia?) I was actually thinking in the theater there's probably no way that plotline would have made it into a US movie post-Weinstein.

Rushed ending and admitted predictability aside this is one of my favorites of the year. Stellar cinematography, production design, and makeup effects, as one might expect, and Sally Hawkins and Richard Jenkins give awards worthy turns. Michale Shannon does great as Roy Moore, and Octavia Spencer has a lot of fun in her role too. Desplat's score is one of the year's finest. I wish certain supporting characters were fleshed out a bit more, which is in a way a compliment as I would've been fine with another thirty minutes or so added to the runtime.

Probably either a B+/A-.

Edit: Upon letting it settle a bit the romance itself is a bit rushed too but given that the film itself is intended to be dreamlike I think I can overlook that too.